A homophobic Island

Over the years the main human rights problem in Jamaica has been homosexuality. People kill, bully, beat, and even make hateful songs about gays. Some even think that all gays should be killed.

In the past two years, two of the island's most prominent gay activists, Brian Williamson and Steve Harvey, have been murdered and a crowd even celebrated over Williamson's mutilated body. Perhaps most disturbing, many anti-gay assaults have been acts of mob violence.


           There has been mob and ganag violences against homosexuals reported. and they never do anything about it. In Jamaica you can be arrested and sentenced for just being a homosexual. Jamaica is known to be a homophobic place.

Jamicas human rights
Arbitrary or unlawful deprivation of life
disappearance
torture and other cruel in human or degrading treatment or punishment

prison and detention center conditions
-prison conditions are poor due to overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions
-men and women are seperated into different facilities
-some children were put in adult because juvenile facility doesnt have good security

abritrary arrest or detention
- law permits the arrest of a person who commits a crime usually requires warrants by the police.

denial of fair public trial
arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence
freedom of speech and press
reedom of peaceful assembly and association
freedom of religion
freedom of movement, internally displaced persons protection of refugees and stateless persons

And alot more human rights that wont be mentioned due to how much there are.